Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

A Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Strategy to Prevent Serious Fall Injuries

2020; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 383; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmoa2002183

1533-4406

Shalender Bhasin, Thomas M. Gill, David B. Reuben, Nancy K. Latham, David A. Ganz, Erich J. Greene, James Dziura, Shehzad Basaria, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Patricia C. Dykes, Siobhan McMahon, Thomas W. Storer, Priscilla Gazarian, Michael E. Miller, Thomas G. Travison, Denise Esserman, Martha B. Carnie, Lori Goehring, Maureen Fagan, Susan L. Greenspan, Neil B. Alexander, Jocelyn Wiggins, Fred Ko, Albert L. Siu, Elena Volpi, Albert W. Wu, Jeremy Rich, Stephen C. Waring, Robert B. Wallace, Carri Casteel, Neil M. Resnick, Jay Magaziner, Peter Charpentier, Charles Lu, Katy Araujo, Haseena Rajeevan, Can Meng, Heather Allore, Brooke Brawley, Rich Eder, Joanne M. McGloin, Eleni A. Skokos, Pamela W. Duncan, Dorothy I. Baker, Chad Boult, Rosaly Correa‐de‐Araujo, Peter Peduzzi,

Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Injuries from falls are major contributors to complications and death in older adults. Despite evidence from efficacy trials that many falls can be prevented, rates of falls resulting in injury have not declined.